‘Some absolute gems’: £1.5m appeal to save rewilding haven Strawberry Hill
Crowdfunding aims to protect central England’s largest area of scrubland in heart of intensively farmed Bedfordshire
April 2024
Captain Tom Moore’s Bedfordshire house on sale for £2.25m
Weapons-obsessed man found guilty over explosion at his Bedfordshire home
March 2024
Other lives
Gerwyn Davies obituary
Country diary
Country diary: A slow and private journey to bearing new life
February 2024
‘Hidden stories’: Historic England funds 56 projects on working-class heritage
Factories, nightclubs, lifesavers and pigeon-fanciers to be celebrated in films and community storytelling
November 2023
Squid Game: The Challenge contestants threaten legal action against Netflix and producers
Captain Tom’s family lose appeal against demolition of spa complex
October 2023
Country diary
Country diary: In this graveyard, not everything stays where it should
Observer comment cartoon
The elephants in the room with Rishi Sunak – cartoon
Labour declares historic byelection wins a ‘political earthquake’
First Edition newsletter
Friday briefing: Double defeat for Tories as Labour takes two seats in byelection victory
Unauthorised home pool was spa complex for elderly, say Captain Tom’s family
Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth: Tories face tough byelection battles
September 2023
The Lib Dems are struggling when they should be flying: should they leap in where Labour fears to tread?
Polly Toynbee
The party needs a radical approach if it wants to be seen as any more than a tactical vote to get rid of the Tories, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
Labour and Tories neck and neck in byelection race for Mid Beds, poll says
Survey reveals Labour more likely than Lib Dems to overturn Conservatives’ 25,000 majority in Nadine Dorries’s former seat
‘Lib Dems will raze this place to the ground’: Mid Beds byelection duel could gift seat to Tories
A split-vote Conservative victory is seen as ‘a serious threat’ as Labour and Lib Dems battle for Nadine Dorries’s former seat
August 2023
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Nadine Dorries accused of ‘abandoning’ constituents by local council urging her to resign immediately – as it happened
Whipsnade zoo ‘ecstatic’ at birth of endangered red panda twins
July 2023
Nadine Dorries urged to quit as MP by council in her constituency
Call for ex-minister to stand down comes nearly two months after she vowed to leave ‘with immediate effect’
